Master Photoshop CC: Apply Smart Selection & Design Tools
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Master Photoshop CC: Apply Smart Selection & Design Tools
This course is part of Apply Advanced Photoshop Features for Visual Design Specialization
Instructor: EDUCBA
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What you'll learn
Apply advanced Photoshop CC tools for object selection, transformation, and perspective correction.
Create professional visual designs using intelligent selections and content-aware features.
Enhance images by refining typography, matching backgrounds, and improving composition.
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February 2026
12 assignments
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There are 3 modules in this course
Learners will apply advanced Photoshop CC tools, analyze image composition, and create professional-quality visual designs using intelligent selections, transformations, and content-aware features. By the end of this course, learners will confidently manipulate objects, correct perspective, match backgrounds, refine typography, and enhance images using modern Photoshop workflows.
This course is designed to help learners move beyond basic editing by focusing on real-world design techniques such as object selection with AI, non-destructive transformations, gradient-based color matching, pixel stretching effects, and perspective correction. Through step-by-step demonstrations, learners gain hands-on experience with the latest Photoshop CC features, including automated background removal, advanced warp controls, updated brush tools, and enhanced Content Aware Fill. What makes this course unique is its tool-centric, workflow-driven approach, ensuring learners understand not just how tools work, but when and why to use them. Ideal for aspiring designers, content creators, photographers, and marketing professionals, this course equips learners with practical skills that improve design accuracy, efficiency, and creative confidence in professional Photoshop projects.
This module introduces learners to Photoshop CC fundamentals, focusing on modern transformation tools and intelligent selection techniques to manipulate objects with precision and efficiency.
What's included
9 videos4 assignments
9 videosβ’Total 68 minutes
- Introduction to Photoshop CC 2020β’2 minutes
- Free Transform Toolβ’7 minutes
- Introduction to Warp Toolβ’4 minutes
- Understanding Warp Splitβ’12 minutes
- Introduction to Object Selection Toolβ’8 minutes
- Working with Object Selection Toolβ’11 minutes
- Object Selection Through Lassoβ’6 minutes
- Selecting Multiple Objects Through Object Selectionβ’5 minutes
- Selecting Multiple Objects Through Object Toolβ’12 minutes
4 assignmentsβ’Total 60 minutes
- Getting Started with Transformations & Smart Selectionsβ’30 minutes
- Photoshop Foundations & Transform Basicsβ’10 minutes
- Mastering Warp & Advanced Transform Controlsβ’10 minutes
- Precision Selection Techniquesβ’10 minutes
This module focuses on advanced selection workflows, background removal, brush tool improvements, and gradient-based color matching to enhance visual consistency and realism.
What's included
9 videos4 assignments
9 videosβ’Total 67 minutes
- Selecting Multiple Charactersβ’5 minutes
- Remove Background in One Clickβ’7 minutes
- Application of Remove Backgroundβ’5 minutes
- Pixel Layer Properties and Click to Zoomβ’7 minutes
- Changes in Brush Toolβ’8 minutes
- Matching Background Through Gradient Mapβ’7 minutes
- Matching Background Through Gradient Map Continueβ’10 minutes
- Gradient Preset Panelβ’9 minutes
- Applying Gradient Preset on Selectionsβ’8 minutes
4 assignmentsβ’Total 60 minutes
- Intelligent Selections, Backgrounds & Brush Enhancementsβ’30 minutes
- Advanced Object & Character Selectionβ’10 minutes
- Pixel Control & Brush Tool Updatesβ’10 minutes
- Gradient Maps & Creative Presetsβ’10 minutes
This module develops skills in layout optimization, perspective correction, typography control, and intelligent content filling to produce professional-quality Photoshop compositions.
What's included
9 videos4 assignments
9 videosβ’Total 65 minutes
- Close Others Optionβ’3 minutes
- Pixel Stretchβ’8 minutes
- Multiple objects for Stretching Pixelsβ’12 minutes
- New Crop Toolβ’5 minutes
- Perspective Warpβ’8 minutes
- Perspective Warp Continueβ’7 minutes
- Changing Perspectiveβ’6 minutes
- Understanding Text Propertiesβ’10 minutes
- Addition in Content Aware Fillβ’4 minutes
4 assignmentsβ’Total 60 minutes
- Layout Control, Perspective & Content-Aware Toolsβ’30 minutes
- Workflow Efficiency & Pixel Stretchingβ’10 minutes
- Cropping & Perspective Masteryβ’10 minutes
- Text, Perspective & Smart Fill Enhancementsβ’10 minutes
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Reviewed on Jun 8, 2026
I am applying the techniques through real design tasks rather than just learning the tools. The course helped me work more efficiently and improved the quality of my edits.
Reviewed on Jun 10, 2026
I gained skills that have made my design work faster and more polished
Reviewed on Jun 12, 2026
I'm learning techniques that make editing more efficient and precise.
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